The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Quote by Joan Didion

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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect...

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect...

Call me the author.

Call me the author.

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money...

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money...

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it...

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it...

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own...

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own...

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory,...

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory,...

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I...

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I...

Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin,...

Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin,...

There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity,...

There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity,...

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect...

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect...

Writers are always selling somebody out.

Writers are always selling somebody out.

You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.

You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.

That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.

Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.

I noticed I had developed a fantasy about myself as a writer as opposed to...

I noticed I had developed a fantasy about myself as a writer as opposed to...

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but...

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but...